Letters: February 19, 2025 (2025)

Trade lesson for Pierre

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It’s clear that Pierre Poilievre has no idea what he is talking about. Take interprovincial trade, for example. The biggest reason why there are trade barriers between provinces is because the provinces are in charge of setting regulations for goods and services. To remove these barriers would require the federal government to take this power away from the provinces. When Poilievre says he will remove trade barriers, he is saying he will expand the federal government.

Mark Fraser

Win-win for Liberals

So Mark Carney’s plan is to eliminate our carbon tax and only to tax/punish corporations, which will charge back to us. But that will also eliminate the need to send out a rebate cheque to the average person. Seems like a win-win for the Liberals (especially since the corps will probably get a rebate or grant or whatever makes the next scandal to come).

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Dee Taylor

Point out the stupidity of Trump’s musings

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants Canada to join his country as the 51st state. He is getting more insistent. An appropriate reply would be a major media blitz in the United States, aimed especially at Republicans, pointing out that if Canada joins the U.S., it will add 10 states with 20 senators and 45 representatives. Most will be Democrat, giving that party immediate and long-term control of Congress, the presidency in 2029, and eventually the judiciary. There are 11 American states along the Canadian border, not one, and the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, a fraction the size of Canada, added 14 states, not one. Canada also needs a motto for this battle. “Remember the Alamo!” might do: the battle the Americans lost when they conquered Texas from Mexico. It is time to point out the stupidity of Trump’s musings, especially to Republicans. And to stand up forcefully for Canadian independence.

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Ed Whitcomb

Damned if you do …

I want to compare U.S. and Canadian medical systems. In Canada, serious medical help costs nothing, but you die with money in the bank, waiting for an operation. In the U.S., there is no waiting, you receive a life saving operation that bankrupts you for the rest of your life. I conclude that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t have an operation, so try real hard to not get sick in the first place.

Robert J. Moskal

Boo hoo

The booing of the American national anthem has to stop. We are better than this. The American hockey players are representing their country. A country they love as much as we love Canada. Because we are at odds with the man and his minions who are running America, does not mean that we cannot act civil to the Americans who have done us no harm.

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Thomas and Gwen Geddes

Canada Post bailout

Strike, strike, strike over the years. Get more and more, the taxpayer will pay. Instead of Canada Post winding down their letter carrier numbers and using more neighbourhood mailboxes while beefing up their parcel delivery sooner, they let the union dictate the future and it is not bright. Email, long-distance plans on cellphones, paperless bills from companies that saw savings, and direct billing and payments all have taken a chunk of business away from Canada Post. It now looks like bailouts might be required annually. Come on.

Wayne Martin

Iconic singer treated unfairly

Buffy Sainte-Marie won an Oscar for writing a song (Up Where We Belong) written for the movie An Officer and a Gentleman. She wrote many popular songs sung by Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Barbra Streisand, Glen Campbell and Elvis Presley. She also wrote a war protest song called Universal Soldier sung by many, including Donovan and Neil Diamond. She was blacklisted for more than a decade in the U.S. and most radio stations in Canada for her support of the American Indian movement, thus destroying her career. During this time, she still developed electronic music innovations that were embraced by many singers and musicians. I sincerely question the wisdom of the Governor General’s decision.

B.G. Brown

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